Labor Fights Communism In Labor Unions
The CIO at its Cleveland convention expelled four unions for following the party line and criticized the Cincinnati Enquirer for secrecy. It says American AFL and CIO unions lead in fighting communism openly and democraticly, forming non Communist free labor groups. The Sun and other papers are urged to name those disciplined by the CIO after hearings.
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CIO
Cleveland
Cincinnati Enquirer
The
Enquirer
AFL
SUN
Marine Cooks & Stewards
American Communications Association
Murray
Cavj
CIO Board Pushes Taft-Hartley Repeal and Labor Support
The CIO Executive Board calls for repeal of Taft-Hartley and re enacting Wagner act with amendments. They urge Truman to fire Denham and end government injunctions. They express backing for 90,000 UAW strikers at Chrysler and support for coal miners in the UMW strike. Bell System workers face a Feb. 24 strike.
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Washington
LPA
CIO
Congress of the
United States
Truman
Robert N. Denham
Nat’s Labor Relations Board
United Auto Workers
Ler Corporation
Chrysler
United Mine Workers
Murray
UMW
United Steelworkers
Bell System
Chrysler Corp
Union Proposes Package To Avert Telephone Strike
The Communications Workers of America CIO offered a package deal to end the looming national telephone strike. The plan calls for a 15 cent per hour average wage increase across all money items, covering basic wages, apprentice period, regrading, and town reclassification. Union president Joseph Beirne said the move aims to break the deadlock and return to serious bargaining with Bell System.
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Beirne
CIO Expels Four Unions Over Communist Alignment
CIO executive board expelled four unions on charges of slavish adherence to the Communist line. Mine Mill and Smelter Workers acted immediately. other expulsions set for March 1 due to New York court actions. Hearings and committee reports detailed Communist influence within Mine Mill, with testimony from Homer Wilson and Kenneth Eckert.
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CIO
Philip Murray
Mine-Mill
United Electrical Workers
Homer Wilson
Kenneth Eckert
Maurice Travis
Eckert
Wilson
Eugene Dennis
William Z. Foster
Gil Green
Pres. Murray
Vicory Predicted In GM UAW Union Shop Elections
Members of Local 674 UAW in Norwood Ohio and thousands of GM plant workers nationwide voted in the era’s largest union shop election. About 1800 Chevrolet and Fisher Body employees cast ballots January 20 21 at Stacy’s Bowling Alley with 90.6 percent turnout of eligible voters. Union officials anticipate a strong UAW victory despite ballots not cast in shops and the use of a turnout rule that counts nonvoters as no votes.
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Vicory
Gm-Uaw
UAW
Norwood
Ohio
General Motors
Chevrolet and
Fisher Body
Stacey’s Bowling Alley
Taft
General Motors Uaw
CIO Board Declares Registration First Duty for Members
The CIO Executive Board unanimously declares member registration a primary political action. The Feb 14 resolution, following Philip Murray’s warning, calls out 1950 as a campaign year and urges CIO and CIO-PAC to mobilize against Dixiecrats and Republicans to restore majority rule.
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CIO
The
Philip Murray
Cio-Pac
CIO Moves Against Communist Dominated Unions
A 1949-1950 sequence shows the CIO amending its constitution to expel Communist dominated unions. It records charges against ten unions, committee hearings, and expulsions including Mine Mill and Smelters, United Office and Professional Workers, Food Tobacco and Agricultural Workers, and United Public Workers with varying effective dates.
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CIO
United Office & Professional Workers and Food Tobacco & Agricultural Workers
United Public Workers
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United Office & Professional Workers
Food, Tobacco & Agricultural Workers
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Ciiq Moves
United Electrical and Farm Equipment
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